Though FMCSA operations unaffected, shutdown could delay hours of service...
Agency officials hinted in December that a notice of proposed rulemaking offering potential revisions to federal hours regs could come as early as March. But the lingering closure of federal agencies...
View ArticleDriver shutdown afoot? Facebook groups stir controversy over calls to turn...
With some groups of truckers coalesced around a "Truckers Stand as One" moniker and calling for an April 12 "industry-wide shutdown" -- and an attendant media blitz in the run-up to that date Feb. 21...
View ArticlePreparing for the impossible, shutdown pessimism and the divisions in...
Steve Bixler on those situations when contingency plans come up short, his long advocacy for an experienced-driver regs-review panel, the history of the "shutdown" and what's changed since he started...
View ArticleIndiana patrollers to monitor truckers’ on-highway protest Thursday
The Indiana State Police will have extra patrollers monitoring the 50-mile I-465 loop around Indianapolis on Thursday as a group of truckers, many of them owner-operators, plan an on-highway protest.
View ArticleMore slow-rollin’ supporting shutdown call: A talk with owner-op Brian Bucenell
Owner-operator Brian Bucenell's 2002 Peterbilt 379 was among the 100 or so trucks that participated in the "slow roll" event in Indianapolis last week. Bucenell's also helping put on a Virginia "slow...
View ArticlePOLL: Are you planning to shut down April 12?
With "Stand as One" slow-roll events over the weekend, movement continued toward the April 12 date on which many slow-roll participants plan to shut down in hopes of bringing greater awareness to the...
View ArticlePOLL: Are you shutting down April 12 with those calling for protest?
With April 12 a day away, will your business be shut down in solidarity with groups calling for protest? If so or if not, why? Drop a comment here and/or weigh in via the poll.
View ArticleShutdown report: Participation estimated, issues raised, tactics debated as...
Participating truckers view any effectiveness of this shutdown as having the potential to demonstrate some unity among drivers, whose voices in regulatory and industry discussions don't always rise to...
View ArticleAOBRD to ELD deadline near yearend: Switch not always easy as it might seem
Contrary to what some legacy e-log providers told us ahead of the mandate about updating then-current equipment to comply with the ELD spec, this small fleet safety director found that simple...
View ArticleMissouri-based trucker shut down following fatal crash
According to FMCSA, trucker Bruce Andrew Pollard was driving a tractor-trailer in a work zone along I-465 eastbound in Indianapolis on July 14 when his truck, traveling faster than the posted speed...
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